The fifth book in the Fricka series takes place, for a change, all at the country home, Combedene, of Fricka and her father the sculptor, who they call The Bear, and Fricka’s three cousins Hugo, Sugar, and Adrian, taken in by The Bear on the death of their parents. They are home from school after […]

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25.08.2025

My Music: AFTER THE OPERA - Todd's Blog

This song was written after my first trip to England with friends in June and July of 1979. It’s not based on an actual event, but suggested by one that did happen on the trip, though the song makes more of it than the reality. I never recorded it, and it’s one of the songs […]

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25.08.2025

Rereading: THE BLACK STALLION CHALLENGED by Walter Farley - Todd's Blog

For the previous book in his racing horse series, “The Black Stallion and Flame,” Farley brought The Black to the hidden island home of his other stallion, but while the two horses worked together to defeat a common enemy, a bat infected with rabies, their owners were not present and did not meet. Readers may […]

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25.08.2025

Rereading: PETER GRAVES by William Pène du Bois - Todd's Blog

Du Bois wrote a number of excellent fantasy novels/stories for young readers, this is my second favorite after “The 21 Balloons.” They are illustrated by him usually in black line with gray tones, as above. Peter Graves is a teenage boy in the town of Houndstooth in a rural area of the eastern United States. […]

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